Sailing tech

Docker replaces VMs

Moved from KVM/QEMM to Docker for all of my various needs server needs, i.e. plex, LAMP, etc. I have beefy server hardware; nonetheless, the overall performance improvement of containers vs. virtualization is astounding. Moreover the community support for Docker is such that the move was painless. There’s still a use case for vitalization; for example, […]

Carbon Monoxide Kills

Public service announcement… with winter coming on and the increased use of fireplaces, etc… if you don’t already have one or more carbon monoxide detectors in your home, get one and install it now. I have experience with being poisoned and it wasn’t fun.. very lucky to be alive.

Giving T-mobile a whirl

This afternoon my “sim card kit” arrived from T-mobile. The process of unlocking my phone was time consuming due to a conflict between Norton 360 and iTunes on my Macbook, but was otherwise painless. After unlocking the iPhone 4s, I simply popped in the new T-mobile sim card and booted up. The phone immediately found […]